The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898

Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century,

Volume XXXIX, 1683–1690

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.

Contents of Volume XXXIX

  1. [Preface] 9
  2. [Miscellaneous Documents, 1683–1690]
    1. [Dampier in the Philippines (concluded).] William Dampier; London, 1697 21
    2. [Petition for Dominican missionaries.] Francisco de Villalva; [Madrid, 1687?] 122
    3. [Events in Filipinas, 1686–88.] [Unsigned and undated.] 131
    4. [The Pardo controversy.] Juan Sanchez, and others; Manila, 1683–89 149
    5. [Official visitation by Valdivia.] [Unsigned; Manila, 1689–90.] 276
  3. [Bibliographical Data] 303

Illustrations

  1. View of the city of Manila; photographic facsimile of engraving in Dampier’s Nouveau voyage autour du monde (French trans., Amsterdam, 1698) between pp. 434 and 435; from copy in Library of Congress 89
  2. Map of the Philippine Islands; photographic facsimile from Pierrè du Val’s La géographie universelle, “Isles Philippines” (Paris, 1682), between pp. 306 and 307; from copy of original map in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 129
  3. Autograph signature of Pedro Murillo Velarde, S.J.; photographic facsimile from original manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 195